_________________I never took drugs to improve my performance at any time. I will be willing to stick my finger into a polygraph test if anyone with big media pull wants to take issue. If you buy a signed poster now it will not be tarnished later. --Graeme Obree

I did not think there was a vaidated test by any sporting body for plasticizers in any sporting case. Also plasticizers are found in loads of every day objects so it's a bit of a red herring IMO . I think you would find most of us would show traces of plasticizers. People should really look into this stuff. It will get to a point where athletes won't know what to eat or drink in fear of being called a doper.

Which people should look into to this? The scientists that devise the tests for doping?

_________________I never took drugs to improve my performance at any time. I will be willing to stick my finger into a polygraph test if anyone with big media pull wants to take issue. If you buy a signed poster now it will not be tarnished later. --Graeme Obree

Contador went on to state "From now on, I will only consume vegeteble-based PEDs, no more meat-based PEDs for me. Andy can stick with the meat-based-PEDs, but not for me." He then shot his trademark finger gun and went on to say "But seriously folks, because plastic is not environmentally friendly, from this point on, I will only use glass containers to store my blood, since I don't want to be responsible for use of a plastic bag which might end up in a landfill or something, or could end up in a stream and might result in a clenbuterol-laced cow choking on it. Of course, I am only storing my own blood in case it's needed for a severe accident, and of course I don't wish to take a chance on a blood donor having ingested any PEDs, because that would give me an unfair advantage, inadvertent as it might be."

So the real lesson here is not to use plastic bags to store blood you intend to infuse.

I mean they have let other athletes off in other sports found with a higher dosage.

Last time I checked, this isn't "other sports." Last time I checked, the thread title is "PRO Cycling Discussion"

And, by all accounts of major international sports, professional cycling has been the most active in combating and confronting doping issues within the sport. To say that other sports let their athletes off with higher dosage just gives me more confidence in cycling's integrity.... UCI/Lance issue not withstanding. Who cares what other sports do or don't do? This is cycling. Not football, not american football, not baseball, not weight lifting... this is cycling.

In Contadors case, the Clenbuterol was 40 times below the amount required to be reported. It was only discovered due to the fact that it was tested in a new lab. Heck, even CAS agreed that it was likely the result of a contaminated food supplement. I don't believe his ban in THIS case was justified.

That said, I am under no illusion that Contador has a spotless past. I am very confident in saying that he must have used something - especially early in his career.

He only got busted with the smallest trace of clenbuterol. I mean they have let other athletes off in other sports found with a higher dosage . If we are playing buy the rules then Contador should not have even been charged it was such a small amount. I do agree that the only chance of stopping doping is a life ban.

Contador getting busted for Clenbuterol is pure irony. He knows he is going to donate his own blood for use later. So he loads up on meat to get as much iron in his blood as possible. So he eats Spanish meat not thinking it contains Clenbuterol. Gives himself a transfusion during the race and gets busted for plasticizers. Which are not "technically" banned.

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_________________I never took drugs to improve my performance at any time. I will be willing to stick my finger into a polygraph test if anyone with big media pull wants to take issue. If you buy a signed poster now it will not be tarnished later. --Graeme Obree

prendrefeu "by all accounts of major international sports, professional cycling has been the most active in combating and confronting doping issues within the sport." I don't see how you can make such a comment when cycling has been turned into a laughing stock by the UCI . They have been turning a blind eye to doping for years. They have no credability. It was USADA who went after Armstrong and all that followed. The UCI have been made to look incompetent .

Spot on 54x11.

It should be one sporting body making clear lines for what is a doping offence. Plasticizers can be found in lots of things . Clenbuterol was found in a nasal spray for colds . It is becoming very difficult for athletes to stay clean if we keep talking about tiny traces of substances.

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